Aliases: str_length str_width
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### ** Examples str_length(letters)
[1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
str_length(NA)
[1] NA
str_length(factor("abc"))
[1] 3
str_length(c("i", "like", "programming", NA))
[1] 1 4 11 NA
# Some characters, like emoji and Chinese characters (hanzi), are square # which means they take up the width of two Latin characters x <- c("\u6c49\u5b57", "\U0001f60a") str_view(x)
[1] β ζ±ε [2] β π
str_width(x)
[1] 4 2
str_length(x)
[1] 2 1
# There are two ways of representing a u with an umlaut u <- c("\u00fc", "u\u0308") # They have the same width str_width(u)
[1] 1 1
# But a different length str_length(u)
[1] 1 2
# Because the second element is made up of a u + an accent str_sub(u, 1, 1)
[1] "ΓΌ" "u"